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Links to porn on hacker news, that's not good
by almost 18y ago
Links to porn on hacker news, that's not good
- ComputerGuru 18y agoI don't know if it would be against HN policy to do so, but I think this is something that should be moderated (i.e. marked as dead).
- dazzawazza 18y ago1. It's a legitimate business 2. It makes a lot of money and touches a lot of people 3. It solves a problem society either has or thinks it has 4. At some point someone sat down and made a business or is trying to make a business from it so lessons can be learned. If you don't like it, ignore it, it's your loss.
- VinzO 18y agoIf the point of the article was business, it wouldn't need to mention the name of the top 20 websites. It would focus on business.
- yummyfajitas 18y agoNews story: >There is this newfangled phenomenon called social networking. People go to these websites, which track their friends and shows photo. They also have "Buy and Sell your Friends" applications, and the ability to poke people. Some people spent way too much time on these sites. You don't think a link to facebook, orkut and myspace is appropriate?
- astine 18y agoFrom scanning the article, it didn't look like there was much news to it. Everyone knows that there is porn on the Internet and that people use their phones to look at it is not surprising. If the article mentioned actual business metrics or trends out of which I could make a business, it would be perfectly relevant and I wouldn't have much of an issue. There is a lot of business opportunity surrounding pornography. As it is, it's just a top 10 list of porn sites, Which is one step from being a link site. This makes it off-topic at best and offensive at worst. Some people want to avoid pornography for 'moral' reasons, others aesthetic, and some are just married. I think that it is in the best interests of HN if we avoid alienating these people.
- asmcoder 18y agoIt mentions the actual products. Last time I checked, HN is made up of hackers who actually put most of their focus on the product. If your spouse will give you grief because of a link on HN then you have two problems.
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- hatethissite 18y agoIt mentions the actual products. Last time I checked, HN is made up of hackers who actually put most of their focus on the product. If your spouse will give you grief because of a link on HN then you have two problems.
- encoding 18y agoCensoring people makes you right.
- astine 18y agoThis is not an issue of free speech. It's a matter of considering others. You are perfectly in your rights to discuss what you will, but some don't want to hear it and it would behoove one to respect their wishes. There are places to discuss this kind of material, IMHO HN isn't really one of them. Anyway, there used to be three topics that one never spoke of in polite conversation, religion politics and sex, because they always held the risk of offending someone. We avoid two here pretty well and we might as well avoid the third.
- encoding 18y agoNo I was talking about the moderators here [dead]ing my posts. Turn on showdead here. If they don't want the topic discussed then shut down the whole thread but not just one side of the debate. I apologize for double posting but I have requested some recourse for this censoring before and it is totally ignored.
- almost 18y agoJust to be clear, I've got no problem with porn on the internet but Hacker News is not the place. The article was just a list of links to sites, no information of interest.